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[RANT] Absolutely bummed out on the interview experience at Rippling

SWE System Design Senior
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Interview Experience

I recently completed the onsite loop of interviews at Rippling Bangalore for a L7/L8 position at 8 YoE, and honestly, the interviews are a cakewalk if you are a solid Senior Engineer. But, I feel abso

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I recently completed the onsite loop of interviews at Rippling Bangalore for a L7/L8 position at 8 YoE, and honestly, the interviews are a cakewalk if you are a solid Senior Engineer. But, I feel absolutely gutted since their questions are all OOPS and LLD design specific with a bit of DSA/Leetcode like logic in between. The questions asks you to implement an extensible solution with SOLID principles, which is great! But, man does it hurt when you can't really complete it in 45 mins! I have given LLD interviews before at PhonePe, Harness, Coupang etc., and my experience is that they give a solid 1+ hour to code and we might go over time. Rippling is such a time watcher that they reject even if your solution is beautiful, extensible, but you can't complete the extensions they give. I feel like my typing speed has to be like the road runner to be able to crack any Rippling coding interview. My solution was elegant and even the interviewers admitted to it, but they reject because I was not able to complete the extensions in the 45 mins of coding. And this is after I have cracked Uber, LinkedIn during my early years. Honestly, feel like shit!
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